[plug] Does anyone know of a way of duplicating exhange publi c folders u nder a Linux email system like sendmail or qmail or some othe r product?

[Buddrige, David]

> Buddrige, David wrote:
> > Am investigating setting up a Linux box to replace a _really %$*! Nt
> box
> > with Exchange server on it...
> 
> > trouble is, they have a bunch of public address books, with all of
> their
> > company contacts, sitting in Exchange Public folders....
> 
> Have you tried putting a public 'phone book on a share (say NFS or
> SaMBa), and pointing their clients at it?
> 
> What I want to do is emulate on the client the exact view the user
> would get if they were looking at a public address book or public
> folder that had been set to generate an address book view on an NT
> server (They should not have to know it's a linux server they're
> looking at...
> 
> Do you know of a way to get SAMBA to emulate this look (as opposed to
> an LDAP server)?
> 
> Currently, we'll definitely be using SAMBA for File/print services...
> but I was thinking of an LDAP server for the global address lists...
> is this the best way to go?
> 
> cheers
> 
> David Buddrige
> Software Engineer
> MITS Ltd.
> david.buddrige at mitswa.com.au